Rombauer family.
Biographical notes:
Irma von Starkloff Rombauer (1877-1962) and her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker (1903-1976), were the co-authors of the classic best-selling cookbook, Joy of Cooking. Born and raised in cultured German circles in St. Louis, Mo., Rombauer came to cookbook writing as a complete amateur after her husband's suicide in 1930. From her first effort, published in 1931 at her own expense, Joy evolved into a general cookbook notable for its ingenious new recipe format; it was published commercially in 1936, and met with national success in 1943. Marion Rombauer Becker, who had moved to Cincinnati after her marriage to architect John Becker, joined as co-author in 1951. Becker steered the cookbook as it developed into one of the most important American culinary reference works of the twentieth century. A civic leader with a profound interest in art, Becker taught art in schools in St. Louis and Cincinnati (1929-36), and served as director of the Cincinnati Modern Art Society (1942-47) and secretary and program chair (1947-54). A gardener, with a passionate interest in the environment, she was also one of the authors of Wild Wealth (1971), a book exploring ecology and use of wild flowers.
From the description of Papers of the Rombauer-Becker family, 1795-1992 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008946
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Subjects:
- Publishers and publishing
- Architects
- Breast
- Civic leaders
- Cooking, American
- Cooks
- Courtship
- Dance
- Fan mail
- Gardening
- German American families
- German Americans
- Modernism (Art)
- Progressive education
- Women
Occupations:
- Architect
- Cooks
Places:
- Saint Louis (Mo.) (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Ohio--Cincinnati (as recorded)
- Cincinnati (Ohio) (as recorded)
- Germany (as recorded)
- Missouri--Saint Louis (as recorded)
